Re: Is Fedora Core slower than RH 9 ?

From: John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>

To: fedora-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Is Fedora Core slower than RH 9 ?

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:49:04 +0800

On Thursday 02 December 2004 13:33, steve_dum mentorg com wrote:
> While not quite the same comparison, I upgraded a RH 7.2 machine
> and found that overall the amount of memory required for an idle
> system with a gnome desktop open, increased by a factor of 4!
> My aging laptop had 77M of ram and 200M of swap space. It ran
I (wife actually) used to run RHL 6.2 ona Pentium 133 with 64 Mbytes of RAM.
Now she has a Pentium III 550 with 256 Mb, I have an Athlon 1400 with 512
Mbytes and plan on trebling it.
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